Singing sensation Ariana Grande has undoubtedly been a breath of fresh air for 2013’s pop music lovers. A welcomed departure from EDM and the dearth of talent plaguing the day’s charts and radio alike, the pop princess has taken the genre by storm with a #1 album and top-selling singles to her credit.

Immediately drawing comparisons to an early 90s Mariah Carey, the up-and-comer has polarized Carey’s fans (affectionately called Lambs) for what some of them feel is a blatant duplication of the diva’s singing style.

Those fans’ anger grew to new heights today when Grande took to Billboard.com to list in grand style an homage to her top 5 favorite female vocalists. Praising the likes of Whitney Houston and Brandy, there’s one name that, to the surprise of some, didn’t quite make the cut…

I really can’t with Lambs bitching about this list. Anyone with eyes and ears can see Mariah is a major influence in her music. She’s said it in just about every interview. The fact that Lambs are flipping out over one time just shows how pressed they are. Mariah needs to drop another single just for the sake of giving them something to do with their time.

Nice list. She definitely has potential to be great but she needs to get her own identity fast. No shade but when I first heard her songs on her current album, it sounded like rejects from one of Mariah Carey’s later RnB albums.

She clearly sounds like Mariah who is unrivaled but pop singer who loves unadulterated saanging and pop-R&B style will name Whitney as number one. Whitney started a whole new era of Pop Soul/ R&B singing.

No one asked her to copy MC’s style and music. Her PR team shouldn’t have used Mariah’s style and name to sale or try to sale that knock off a** album. Starting and blossoming your own career means doing your own thing, not copying another artist..

She didn’t list Mariah because she fails in comparison. She sung all of Mariah’s songs on youtube, and praised her in every interview. It was Mariah that actually started the whole wave of pop/r&b/soul/hiphop singing. Her team tried to make her out to be something that she ain’t nowhere near close to. Mariah ain’t tripping off of this copy cat anyway.. Look at those album sales, she should have branched out, instead of following her team. She really looks stupid. She said herself that Mariah is the queen and greatest vocalist, and her first inspiration. Now she doesn’t name her. It’s obvious though . LooooooooL.. Who cares though? Leave it to Thatgrapejuice to make something out of nothing..

The only one looking stupid here is you. Had you done your research before you came talking s*** you’d know her label wanted a more bubblegum pop swing sound (Put Your Hearts Up & Pink Champagne). She decided to do the throwback R&B sound. Get your facts straight.

no you look stupid, her excutive producer who created her album sound said in almost exact words he used Mariah’s mid 90s (daydream album, wait wasn’t Ariana’s album orginally called daydreaming?) sound and style to create Ariana’s own style. look the interview up before trying to call out others.

NTOctober 10, 2013

Ariana Grande already stated that she felt that Mariah Carey was QUEEN , there’s not much more you can say after that ; i’m sure she liked/looked up to other artist besides Mariah

She’s not very slick. The almost is never enough video is a complete rip off of one sweet day. Baby I video is also very similar to Fantasy. And to top it all of, her album was to be titled “Daydreamin.”

Clearly, she was trying to remake Mariah’s most successful era (daydream.)

Funny how everyone was so quick to talk about how this girl was gonna replace Mariah. Lol, her album hasn’t even sold 300k yet. Mariah’s lowest selling album is gold. Smh

Funny how everybody was screaming how great this little h** was, but aint bother to drop some cushion coins on this flop! LOL oh my! I mean obviously the public isn’t buying this imposter, and her try hard antics! This b**** get’s the K.Michelle donkey face of the year!

It’s funny to me how everyone on TGJ wants to complain about todays acts not having any real vocalists but when one comes along everyone wants to take irrelevant things and blow them up to hate on her. Who cares about her list? Why does this even have a post? Some of y’all need more going on in your lives.

I must say that I’m surprised that she didn’t include Mariah on her list! I did vote for that 2nd option, it is her list. As for her musical taste, it’s on point! What can you say? Whitney + Bran are amazing vocalist that have influenced too many to name. #KnowGoodMusic

LOL Well obviously Mariah is her biggest inspiration… and whether her fans like it or not, her team (or she herself) tried to copy her style from 15 years ago. I mean, it´s obvious. It´s not what Gaga is to Madonna cos Gaga did a couple of songs which sounded similar to Madonna´s songs and also some of the looks were similar, but she also did more than enough different things, not to mention Gaga´s debut had nothing to do with any Madonna style or song ever. Ariana just tried to copy from the start. We already said months ago that doesn´t work and will never work. She can have some moderate success in the USA among teens and that´s it. It´s not going anywhere else, as predicted.
Apart from that, of course her list is amazing and she has great taste.

Who the f*** cares if she listed Mariah or not. Why is it that big of a deal? Every artist she named has something vocally great about them and India is so slept on her f****** music slays if you’re not a brain dead pop fiend,which is why I believe there is hope for the new generation.
What her album sold doesn’t take away from her vocal ability at all. TGJ has the most pettiest commentators ever…

Wow people wake up so early with hate….as a sensible member of the navy I can say I enjoyed Ariana’s album alot her voice is heavenly and she put out a strong body of work so just shut up and feel honored lambs respect the next generation instead of being messt

LOL MARIAH HAS BECOME SO TRASHY IN THE LAST 15 YEARS, NOBODY THINKS ABOUT HER SINGING ANYMORE; SHE’S TOO BUSY FLASHING HER TITS & ASS ON INSTAGRAM. AND I DON’T KNOW WHY SHE NAMED BRANDY. HER SINGING IS BASIC AT BEST.

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